Kapanaligan king Alang-panayang-kapalit a Pakalulu ning Ginu (Faith in the Unconditional Mercy of the Lord)
“Kapuryan king Dyos at Ibpa nang Ginung Yesu Kristo, ing Ibpa ning lunus at Dyos ding sablang kanawan, a magpapasno kekatamu karing sablang kaligaligan, bang apapasnawan la ring ati king kaligaligan king kapasnawan a tatanggapan tamu king Dyos.” ~ Kadwang Kortinyanu| Dangka 1: Sunis 3-4
(2 Corinthians| 1:3-4)
“Mapibabata kung menenaya king Ginu; binalikid Ya kanaku at dindam na ing panangis ku.
Inangat na ku ibat king mataluras a talaga, ibat king burak at king laput; tiklu na la ring bitis ku king batu at pigkaluban na kung matatag a tuklwanan bang tikdo karin. Mikabit yang bayung dalit king asbuk ku, lawiwing papuri king Dyos tamu.
Dakal lang manakit at tumakut king Ginu at ibili da ing kapanaligan da Kaya.”
~ Dalit| Dangka 40:Sunis 1-3
(Psalm| 40:1-3)
“Ing Ginu santungan Ya para karing mipapasakitan, masikan a pikalawatan king panaun ning kaligaligan. Ding makibalu king Lagyu mu manalig la Keka, uling Ika, Ginu, e mu la paymburisan ding magdulap Keka.” ~ Dalit| Dangka 9: Sunis 9-10 (Psalm 9:9-10) Dakal a mangadi ngeni at mayayakit la deti karing social media lakwas na king Facebook bang miligtas la king sakit at dakal ing bitasang ikapatad inawa kabud mikasakit ya ing ninu man. Ing takut laganas karing salu at isip ding memalen keti bangsa pati na king mabilug a yatu. Balang metung namu migaganaka at kakarug. Ninung ali? Atin mu rin. Mapilan la mu.
Deng namung kulang pamisip a mapilan ila ring e kakarug— at ding matibe kasalpantayanan. Deng bingut at ding magulyan mu naman
pala. Oneng bingut ka pa wari nung babasan me ini? Keraklan maglibang ka. Mekad ala kang agawa uling makakulung ka king bale yu. Ala kang akarapat nung e mantun magpakalingwan king pikakarugan mu at tamu ngan alus.
Ay, ating aliwa pala— kapanaligan king alangpanayang-kapalit a pakalulu ning Ginu. Nung atin tamu kanini ala kang pitakutan o pikarugan nanu mang kaligaligan, nu man karin, kapilan man o makananu mang kabilyan. Nung maus ta king Nwan nang Lagyu at magsantung tamu king Keyang pakalulu sikan tamu lub at alang makapagpakayna kaniti nanu man at ninu man. Alang kapikakunwan dapat agyang kapurit mu. Kanita kapurit man ala ta’nang kapigaganakan. “No worries” ngara ping sasabi.
Ing kapanaligan malyaring midusug bunduk. Dakal pin sasabing ala nang panulu keng sakit a makayawang ini keng kasalungsungan at nung atin man mekad banwa ing bilangan. O midaragdagan lang libu-libu deng mikakasakit balang aldo, e. E la man mababawas. E man papatag ing liku. Buri na sabyan nita tutu pin a banwa pa ing panayan bang mikapanulung makapaldan keng sakit ayti.
The winners in the poetry category are “Ulu” by Gerald Chu (first prize), “Quing Maskup a Dalan” by Errice Pabalan (second prize) and “Gapus” by Joshua Valencia (third prize). In the songwriting category, the winners are “Aliwa Ka” by Jay Gopez (first prize), “Regalu ning Guinu” by Mary Jane Babadilla (second prize), and “Milabas” by Nilo Nucup and Don Mauro Gomez, with the best performance award going to Mica Navarro (“Milasbas”).
Tantingco said that the reason cultural advocacy groups have mushroomed in Pampanga was precisely to address the perception that the Kapampangan language was dying among the youth— a phenomenon that started when government instituted Filipino as the national language at the expense of regional languages.
He attributed the unexpected big number of contestants to the competition’s chosen theme, medium and prizes, as well as to the relative ease of performing in the privacy of home and videotaping the performance with a phone camera, and then submitting the entry online instead of the usual stage performance in front of a live audience.
“Online is our young people’s natural habitat,” Tantingco said. “They are very good at it, and very comfortable in it, more than us old folks.”
The theme in the poetry category is their insights and feelings about the pandemic, Tantingco said, and it turned out that young people are not passive victims but active survivors with strong opinions about how government is handling the situation, how it has impacted their lifestyles, and what role religion plays.
The genre chosen for the poetry category is is the spoken word poetry, which is free verse, untraditional, and delivered with the force of a strong conviction about the subject matter. In the songwriting category, the theme was children’s song, i.e., anything from nursery rhyme and lullaby to songs of advice and inspiration.
When CKS uploaded all 120 entries on Facebook in the last week of the Buwan ng Wika, social media was flooded with Kapampangan poems and songs as each entry generated thousands of likes and shares, some up to 70,000.
The top prize in the poetry category, called the Villanueva Award, was donated by Atty. Stephanie G. Somera in honor of both her mother, Dr. Francisca V. Gomez, a pioneer student of Holy Angel University, and grandfather, Atty. Francisco Villanueva, a Kapampangan poet who died in the influenza pandemic of 1918.
All the prizes in the songwriting category, on the other hand, were donated by HAU alumnus Oscar Balajadia a.k.a. Papa Osmubal, who is a Macau-based Kapampangan poet, artist, language expert and National Book Award winner.
Serving as judges in the poetry category are filmmaker/writer Jason Paul Laxamana, poet laureate Tec Sanchez Tolosa and spoken-word poet Gerone Jan Baladhay, while conductor Edwin Lumanug, artist/composer Andy Alviz and composer/author Irwin Nucum served as judges in the songwriting competition.
“Young people love the Kapampangan language,” Tantingco said. “My faith in them is renewed with this contest. What they need is more people encouraging them, supporting them and guiding them, not shaming, belittling and mocking them.” (PR)